Lunia czechowska biography examples

Lunia Czechowska was 25 when she sat for the present portrait. Her father was a Polish patriot who actively opposed the Russian and Austrian partition of the Polish homeland. Upon graduating from the gymnasium in 1913, Lunia followed her father’s wishes and moved to Paris.

There she met Kazimierz Czechowski, another recent Polish émigré, also a patriot, with whom she fell in love; they married on 21 June 1915. Czechowski was a friend of Léopold Zborowski, the dealer of Modigliani.

This is how they met.

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Modigliani painted many portraits of Lunia; now we don't know if they were friends because she was his muse or because he didn't have money to pay the models.

Amedeo Modigliani is known for his nudes and portraits. With its elongation of faces and figures, his characteristic, modern style is clearly recognizable.

Like so many great artists, his work wasn’t very well received during his short lifetime (he died at age 35). The portrait